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...planes after a CAB examiner recommended that Northeast be refused a permanent certificate to fly the Miami-New York run. Without this route, most airline experts feel, Northeast has next to no chance of survival. Through his attorneys, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes, who controls Northeast, began intense negotiations to stall off Vickers and General Dynamics until he can line up other planes to keep Northeast flying. He obviously hopes to find a merger partner, but since Northeast is staggering under a $60 million debt, a merger may be difficult to arrange...
...Uncle Ludwig" was the architect of the nation's postwar prosperity and by far the Christian Democratic Union's best vote-getter. But Chancellor Adenauer, who hates to give way after 14 years in power, and hates even more to give way to Erhard, thought he could stall off Erhard's formal appointment. At a party meeting last week, Adenauer tried to talk about everything but his successor. Grumpily, Adenauer declared that he could not tolerate a Chancellor-designate "looking over my shoulder" in the remaining months before his promised fall retirement is a fact. Besides...
...financiers. Yet, for all its wealth, says Sociologist Dahrendorf, the Geldaristokratie "is searching above itself in the social hierarchy for its behavioral standards. But the space above it is empty." This, he suggests, accounts for the joyless, frantic materialism that characterizes much of postwar German life-"the medieval choir stall in the dining room, the conspicuous consumption, the complete lack of taste in art and literature." Complains one sophisticated young princess: "If the Ford Foundation really wants to do something for Germany, it should endow a salon in Bonn. Just a little salon. The old society is dead...
This is more the meaning of the Geneva stall--that the United States hasn't really decided yet whether it needs disarmament, contradicting Kennedy's stated desire. And then some fine day men like Dodd and Goldwater will learn whether limited nuclear was was a possibility, or not. Steven H. Johnson '64 Chairman of Tocsin
Heavyweights Stall...